Xueba's computing system

Chapter 47 Magnifying Move

Lin Yuan was surprised and delighted by the amazing operation given by his instructor.

The joy was not only because he had found a way to obtain computing resources, but also because he was excited about being able to work as a jungler in North America.

Lin Yuan recalled the grief and indignation that young people felt when they read about modern history in high school history class. Although this grief and indignation gradually faded under the surrounding torrent, it was sealed in the valley after he put on the yellow robe.

But at this moment, those emotions seemed to be ignited again.

Lin Yuan felt that what he was about to do was the right thing, and he even had a faint sense of mission. He wanted to ruthlessly consume the enemy's resources.

But in his excitement, Lin Yuan was not without concerns, because doing so would inevitably lead to risks.

If he was really arrested, how would he prove his passion? This was what worried Lin Yuan.

Although he had a mentor as a guarantor, Lin Yuan was still a little nervous.

Excitement and fear intertwined into the thrill of adventure, which was much more exciting than rubbing the acceptance letter. He couldn't resist the temptation after all.
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The next day, which happened to be Saturday, Lin Yuan got up early, went to the cafeteria to eat breakfast, bought four steamed buns, and then went to the supermarket to buy two bottles of happy water. He didn't plan to go out for lunch.

Professor Zhang forwarded him a bunch of emails last night. Judging from the dates, the earliest one was almost two years ago.

These emails are nothing more than invitations to various conferences. The organizers are very diverse, from all fields. There are AI, microelectronics, edge computing, purely academic seminars, and so on.

The instructor said very cryptically, "You can search more here. Some conferences are just for fun. You can follow the clues to find various institutions on the same line."

Lin Yuan had also heard in the news before: some high-end conferences bribed participants in the name of appearance fees.

Thinking back to what his mentor had said to him last night: "Back then, many foreign-funded institutions liked to invest in highly educated young people like us." Then Lin Yuan naturally thought that these meetings were probably still playing the same tricks as back then, except that the methods of playing were probably more secretive.

Fortunately, there is a lot of public information on the Internet nowadays. Even the US$16 billion "special funds" of the other side of the ocean can be found on their own government website.

The companies to which these conference organizers belong, their equity structure and shareholder lists can all be found online.

Although there are still secret operations such as proxy holding of shares in the commercial field, commercial activities will inevitably leave traces. Over time, as more traces are left, clues will naturally be revealed.

What's more, many people in the Internet age have a common problem, which is that they like to show off.

Many jaw-dropping events that shocked the whole country or even the whole world were caused by nothing more than some idiot posting something on a social platform, or a minor repair on the laptop of an important official.

Lin Yuan naturally thought of using the names of the conference organizers and the holding companies behind them found online, as well as the names of the various conferences they held, to search various social platforms, especially those platforms where teachers and students from prestigious schools like to show off the most. Perhaps he could find some clues.

Lin Yuan even considered the campus BBSs of major universities and overseas social platforms.

Such a huge amount of data retrieval work is naturally impossible for him to complete alone. However, data retrieval is the most common calculation. And the computing system is best at calculation.

Lin Yuan only needs to build the data channel for the computing system, just like he did when collecting merchant data.

The computing system can be very powerful when it becomes powerful, but very stupid when it becomes stupid.

For example, if you throw the information of a certain meeting into the system, the system has no idea how to find the organizer behind the meeting, because the system does not know where to find it. Then Lin Yuan needs to help the system find the organizer of the meeting, and then link the system to the entrance of the enterprise information query platform - Mouyancha.

The system will then know where to look up the company's information, and then follow the clues to retrieve the connections along the entire path.

After that, the system will search for data from various social platform entrances specified by Lin Yuan based on the queried meeting-related information.

It can be said that what the system is best at is retrieval.

As long as Lin Yuan builds the data channel well, all the data on the channel can be retrieved by the system.

The only trouble in this process is the consumption of computing power. Computing power is a problem that has always troubled Lin Yuan. Fortunately, the consumption of this type of search is only a one-time investment, so Lin Yuan plans to grit his teeth and squeeze out some money.

But what almost made him bite his back teeth was that the computing power consumption estimate given by the system was: completely emptied.

[Each large-scale data retrieval will clear the current accumulated computing power. ]

Lin Yuan was furious. [You did it on purpose, didn't you? You still ran out of mana when you used your ultimate, didn't you? What other settings do you have that I don't know about?]

[I don't even bother to call you 'system', I'd rather just call you Old Six. ]

Since the current accumulated computing power has been consumed to only 266P, and the matter at hand has already been put on hold, Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and started the data search.

Anyway, after you officially enroll, you will receive some computing power income from the settlement of the enrollment tasks.

However, Lin Yuan was still a little panicked when he saw the [Accumulated Calculation Power: 0P] on the system panel. So he had to grit his teeth and sell himself to the system in exchange for 100P of calculation power.

[Cumulative computing power: 100P], in case of emergency at critical moments.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan was young and in good health, so the process of selling out his own essence did not have much impact on him. Instead, it allowed him to achieve the "super sage state" where he could focus on his work.

From this point of view, Lin Yuan suddenly thought: Is this the good intention of the system? Just to let me concentrate on my personal struggle and not care about those flowers and plants.

Even a systematic search took more than ten minutes to complete when faced with such a large amount of data.

Lin Yuan finally got the result he wanted.

The first item on the list of results retrieved by the system was a comment under a post on the overseas social platform Facebook that was marked as 99.99% suspicious.

The system has thoughtfully translated all the content.

The original intention of this post was to discuss: Where can inexperienced teachers and students get cheap computing resources?

The comments below the dynamics are almost all complaining about NVIDIA's computing power cards being too expensive, and complaining about the miners driving up the price of graphics cards. Some people also complained that they accidentally bought a second-hand graphics card disguised as a refurbished mining card, and they wanted to say hello to the miners.

Lin Yuan could relate to this because he was facing the same problem.

The comment that was picked out by the system was actually very brief: "Who would have thought that I put those data on the OCR equipment for calculation, not only did I save on equipment expenses, but I also received a certain amount of free computing power quota. lol~~"

Judging from the words of the answerer, he is very proud. It gives people the feeling that he not only easily obtained computing power equipment but also did not spend any money.

Lin Yuan's previous understanding of "OCR" was: Optical Character Recognition. But this place obviously does not mean this, but is obviously referring to a certain organization.

The key to understanding this comment obviously lies in the explanation of the term "OCR".

【System, what is OCR here? 】

[OCR, full name: Open Computing Republic, is headquartered in North America and has a branch office in Hong Kong. The organization's purpose is to make computing accessible and equal computing rights. ]

Lin Yuan pondered for a moment, "It has that flavor." "Computing power is something that not everyone needs to use. Why do we have to label it as equal rights? And Republic means republic. It has the flavor of an NGO organization."

But the system did not provide too much detailed information. Lin Yuan had also gotten used to this setting of the system - all retrieval depended on the data path.

Fortunately, the system provided enough help, and Lin Yuan could complete the rest on his own.

　I would like to state that this is not a mindless cheat. Instead, everything is based on data analysis based on existing public data on the Internet. For example, many great political bloggers do not actually have any internal reference materials, but they can predict the direction of the international situation based on public data and various information such as geography and history. For example, a certain expert who predicted the decoupling of the east and west sides of the Pacific Ocean early on predicted it on a show when the two sides were in the honeymoon period. There are many more examples like this. The data retrieval of the protagonist system is essentially this ability, not IMBA to the point of being able to spy on all the news in the world. This is to explain.

　　
　
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